Word: decay
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Such were the surroundings of Lampedusa's boyhood. As an adult, while the traditions and the estates of the aristocracy passed through their final decay, the author, who did not need to work, devoted himself to learning the world's literature...
...that surround his prose. On one page, for instance, Baldwin insists that white Americans, equating Europe with "civilization," envied those "more elegant European nations that were still untroubled by the presence of black men on their shores." Yet, he continues, if we are not to share in Europe's decay we must "accept ourselves as we are, bring new life to Western achievements, and perhaps transform them." Then this phase of the argument reaches a climax...
...into it with the same lack of knowledge that the Student demonstrates in the first scene. Like us, he wavers between condemnation of Hummel for the heinous sins done to his father and sympathy for the Old Man because of the telling presence of his mortality, the moments when decay and ruin reduce Hummel to a state of absolute dependency on the understanding of at least one human being--in this case, the student. What are we to think when Hummel, who rises to a height of awful vindicativeness toward the end of the second scene, is suddenly reduced...
Bacteriologist Gordon E. Green of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital told the American Dental Association last week that about 1% of the adult population, regardless of racial origin, seems to be completely immune to tooth decay. Neither the amount of fluoridated water consumed during childhood nor the number of germs in the mouths seems to make any difference. In the saliva of these fortunate persons, reported Dr. Green, he has found an antibacterial substance. He still does not know what it is, only that it is a protein and resembles the proteins of which antibodies are composed...
...Green has high hopes of a decay-free future once he has identified this protective protein, learned how to make it, and how to give it to people who do not naturally produce it. Another possibility would be to separate the antigenic fraction of the mouth germs that cause decay and inject it to stimulate active immunity through antibodies. This would amount to vaccination against tooth decay...